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Uber, Google and others form self-driving car lobby to shape US policy

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Nellie Bowles in San Francisco
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Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo - all developing self-driving car technology - have formed a lobbying group to take on regulation of autonomous vehicles

If your self-driving car crashes, who gets sued? Google, Uber, and Ford would rather it be you, according to some experts.

Tech companies making self-driving cars could become better protected under the law than those car's owners, experts warn, as the announcement came of a powerful new coalition of automakers and big tech companies forming to take on US government regulations around self-driving vehicles.

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